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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hobart or Paphos?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Hobart for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’s own page.

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Hobart 30, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Paphos 45: Hobart leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Paphos 38: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Paphos 70: Hobart leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Paphos 40: Hobart leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Paphos 25: Hobart leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Paphos 22: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Paphos.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Hobart
48match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartPaphos
Official languageEnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation54 m72 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartPaphos
City population197,45135,961
People per km²1161,987
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.